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Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Ratify, without reservations, the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and fully align national legislation with all the obligations under the Rome Statute, as previously recommended

Accelerate the process of the creation of a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles and give it adequate financial resources and infrastructure to function properly

Ensure the timely establishment of a national human rights institution that is in line with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) and provided with adequate resources to fulfil a wide-ranging mandate

Take the necessary measures to establish a moratorium on executions of death row prisoners as well as to repeal the death penalty in national legislation

Immediately adopt a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to ultimately abolishing it

Establish a moratorium on the death penalty as a step towards the complete abolition of this practice

Impose a moratorium on executions with the goal of abolishing the death penalty

Establish a moratorium on the application of the death penalty as a step towards its definitive abolition and modify the Penal Code to reduce the number of crimes for which capital punishment can be imposed

Establish a de facto moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its abolition

Impose a moratorium on executions and abolish the death penalty

Consider implementing a full moratorium on the death penalty

Initiate a moratorium on the imposition of capital punishment, especially for non-violent crimes

Abolish the death penalty for all crimes, and consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Continue reform towards abolition of the death penalty, including by continuing to reduce the list of crimes punishable by the death penalty, in particular non-violent crimes, under the Penal Code of 2015 and by providing greater transparency about the numbers, methods and associated crimes relating to its use

Abolish definitively the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty and, without delay, reduce the number of offences punishable by the death penalty

Further reduce the offences punishable by the death penalty, provide official figures regarding death sentences and executions and consider introducing a moratorium on the death penalty

Continue the process of reducing offences subject to the death penalty until the abolition of capital punishment and publish statistics on the use of the death penalty in Viet Nam

Continue to reduce the scope of crimes subject to the death penalty to only the “most serious crimes” and consider introducing a moratorium

Continue to reduce the number of crimes subject to the death penalty and consider introducing a de facto moratorium on its application

Further reduce the list of offences punishable by death, eliminate the death penalty for “activities against the people’s government”, “espionage”, “embezzlement”, and “taking bribes” as well as for serious drug offences

Review the Penal Code and the law on cybersecurity to harmonize them with international standards related to the freedom of expression, association and assembly

Guarantee the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and amend the Penal Code and the cybersecurity law to make sure that the limitations on the right to freedom of expression are in line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights